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Freedom is a word we throw around about the United States. We're free to drive from state to state without inspections. We're free to go to the church or school we want. We're even free to marry whoever we want. And that's where the freedom ends. Once you are married, the state has a firm grip on your future. 50% of marriages end in divorce. People change. Depending on the reasonableness of each spouse, the divorce will either be amicable or horrible. Family law attorneys prefer horrible. There's much more money to be made!

So what do we do about it? Since 2011 we have been working to update Florida's antiquated family laws. In 2013 and 2016 Gov. Scott vetoed bills that were overwhelmingly supported by the Florida House and Senate. In 2015 the Florida House did not finish their session and went home early, leaving many good bills to die, including alimony reform. What is to keep Gov. Scott from vetoing another bill? Two things.

First, we will support alimony reform and/or child sharing as separate bills, unless we have specific knowledge that the Gov will sign a bill that somehow combines both. We will do our best to check with the governor to see what he will sign and what he won't sign. Rep. Workman told us last year that Gov. Scott would veto any bill that had child sharing attached to it. And the governor did just that. Working backwards, we'll help craft a bill that Gov. Scott will sign.

Second, we need a public outcry! Last year having 10,000 people asking Gov. Scott to sign the bill wasn't enough. We need 100,000 Floridians to stand up for our families and demand that the Family Court System helps to end a failed marriage without ripping the family completely apart! The destruction of Florida families is largely due to the existing laws that many Family Law Attorneys use to divide the family and conquer the bank accounts. Conflict creates great income opportunities for Family Law Attorneys. A mediated outcome without opposing attorneys usually will get the best long term result for the entire family at a fraction of the cost. Most family law attorneys appear to be against this straightforward solution. Wonder why?

So when you see the fireworks, listen to the music, enjoy the hamburgers, hotdogs, potato chips and drinks, enjoy the freedoms we have, but stand up and fight for the freedoms our state took away from us. If you don't pay alimony to your ex-spouse who is capable but refuses to work, you go to jail. That Is Not Freedom!!!! You have broken no laws, but still go to jail. Think about it!!

Then get involved! It will be great to celebrate July 4th and be totally FREE! No more ball & chain. The sooner you get involved, the sooner we will all celebrate!

POINT OF VIEW: Craft reasonable legislation to reform alimony system

Lori Berman and Cynthia Stafford, two Florida Representatives, want a new "Task Force" before taking up alimony reform again. Click Here to read the entire article,

Here is Alan's response:

THERE IS NO NEED FOR A TASK FORCE BEFORE IMPLEMENTING ALIMONY REFORM

Representative Stafford and Representative Berman, in their recent Point of View article "Create task force before taking up alimony reform again," state that "if alimony reform is necessary-a point that is far from settled---then it should be done in response to ...well-reasoned analysis...."

As a Financial Advisor, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, and President of Family Law Reform, I can personally and professionally attest to the atrocities occurring within our current family law system with regard to divorce. As an expert witness in numerous divorce cases, I have personally seen the verbal and emotional abuse that Attorneys inflict upon divorcing spouses in the name of being zealous advocates for their clients. Worse than that, I have witnessed a self-serving judicial system allowing for such abuse with the final result being the enrichment of that same judicial system at the wasteful expense of the divorcing couple and their children...

Click Here to read Alan's entire response. He hits the nail on the head!

Alan's Message

Greetings Alimony Reform Members:

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As the 4th of July fireworks approach, I am excited for the possibilities ahead for alimony reform.

Together, over many years, we have learned a great deal about our judicial and political systems in our great State. Much of what we have learned wasn't fun, but if we look at it as a new opportunity instead of a beat down, then we can put that information to good use. We have made many contacts and many political allies. We have educated our Legislators, the media, and the general public as to the real need for alimony reform, and now child sharing within our abusive court system. Yes, it has taken more time than I would have liked for it to take, but we are so close. It's almost as if one more swing of the pick axe will unearth the mother load for us all. We simply cannot give up as we have come so far.

Despite the above article from a couple of disgruntled Democratic Legislators who may have aligned themselves with funding from certain special interest groups, thiis coming session you can expect a proposed bill that eliminates permanent alimony and helps alleviate many of the atrocities that now occur for divorcing spouses in our family courts. It will be a bill that has already been vetted by the Legislators and agreed to by the leaders of the Family Section of the Florida Bar. It is a bill that, while not perfect, address's many of the issues that are currently causing so much frustration for our Florida families.

Let the 4th of July fireworks remind us that independence day is near and that we will continue to fight for our freedom from permanent alimony.

Plea for donations:

Historically, we expect donations to be minimal during the off-session, but our funds are simply too low. I know it's challenging to believe that change will occur. I know it's challenging to keep the faith. But you simply must! We are doing everything within our power to make this change happen. A day doesn't go by when I am not thinking about what else I can do?; who else can I speak with?; who/what can I write? to help facilitate this needed change. If everyone who receives this newsletter just donates $25 per month, we wouldn't have to worry about meeting our monthly expenses. Will you please dig deep and help us?

This 4th of July, please consider every dollar you donate to be another rocket in the sky...another light to shine...another loud BOOM letting our Legislators and our Governor know we are not going away and that we expect alimony reform to occur for the 2017 legislative session.

110 world experts have endorsed shared parenting and it is favored by 70 percent of the population, yet Gov. Scott, influenced by the high paid lobbyists of the Family Law Section, vetoed legislation that would have helped thousands of dads become a bigger part of their children's lives.

Click Here to read the entire article, then comment and share. Commenting and sharing is one way you can get involved without leaving your home. Please take the time to read, comment, then share. Many hands make light work. Thanks!

It Takes Many Hands to Help Our Families Out Of The Legal Claws

Will You Help Update Florida's Outdated Family Laws?

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Click Here to set up monthly contributions or make a single contribution.

Or send checks to:

Family Law Reform, Inc.

215 E. Burleigh Blvd.

Tavares, FL 32778

If FLR has an income stream, we can focus on the issues and not fundraising. If anyone writes grants, family law surveillance would seem to benefit all Floridians.

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We always encourage all parents and extended family to share experiences of Family Court horrors, or Parental Alienation and its impact on you, your children and family. That way the ripple effect of the information and experiences shared will create positive change for other people who are affected or who may be affected in the future.

Comment anonymously, call yourself whatever you want. Email addresses are strictly confidential, and providing one is optional (but will allow you to be notified of others’ responses and to dialogue immediately if you wish). This blog was viewed over a half a million times. For the public to be aware of procedural abuses, it has to hear about them. The blog author’s own story is here. Civility is the only constraint upon your speech.

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Obnoxious ‘Renegade’ Justice ~ Family Courts

The abuses of parents and children by Family Courts, social workers, and family law attorneys have harmed parents and children for far too long. We intend to end that abuse

Family court is designed by its makers to be probably the most dangerous life event parents and children can endure. It enables and profits from every inhumane instinct known to man—greed, hate, resentment, fear—resulting in abundant cash flow for the divorce industry and a fallout of parent and children’s misery.

And behind the curtain of this machine of misery we’ve uncovered its cause—the multi-billion dollar divorce industry, populated by judges, attorneys, and a machinery of tax-dollar fed “judicial administrators,” social workers that George Orwell would marvel at.

We’ve been delivering that message kindly for years now, yet the tide keeps rising on families in crisis. We’ve appealed to the county courts, state and local politicians, state judicial oversight bodies, United States Representatives, and just plain old human dignity, but the harassment and abuse of parents and children has only increased. A resort to federal court intervention in the widespread criminal collusion in state government was the next logical step.

It’s time to recognize Family Court for what it is—a corporate crime ring raiding parents and children of financial and psychological well-being, and devouring our children’s futures. And its not just divorce lawyers—its judges, “judicial administrators,” psychologists, cops and prosecutors—people we should be able to trust—in a modern day criminal cabal using county courtrooms and sheriff’s deputies as the machinery of organized crime.

Since state officials’ hands are too deep into the cookie jar to stop their own abuse, we’re seeking the assistance of federal oversight.

The present-day suffering of so many parents and children has and is being wrought within a larger system characterized by a widespread institutional failure of—indeed contempt for—the rule of law.

Family courts, the legal community, professional institutions such as the state bar, psychology boards, and criminal justice institutions have in the recent decade gradually combined to cultivate a joint enterprise forum in which widespread “family practice” exceptions to the rule of law are not only tolerated, but increasingly encouraged. Professional behavior that would only a few years ago be recognized as unethical, illegal, or otherwise intolerable by American legal, psychological, law enforcement, or social work professionals has increasingly achieved acceptance—indeed applause—from institutional interests which benefit from a joint enterprise enforcing the unwritten law of “who you know is more important than what you know.

In this lawless behavior’s most crass infestation, Family Court Judges are regularly heard to announce, in open court, “I am the law” and proceed to act accordingly with impunity, indifference, and without shame.

The effect on parents and children seeking social support within this coalescing “family law” forum has not been as advertised by courts and professionals—a new healing—but instead a new affliction: an ‘imposed disability’ of de rigueur deprivation of fundamental rights in the name of ‘therapeutic jurisprudence’ funded by converting college funds into a bloated ministry of the Bar Associations leaving families and their children with mere crumbs of their own success.

Many family court judges regularly administer such obnoxious ‘renegade’ justice every day, in open defiance of the rule of law. ‘Sober as a judge’ these days has a whole new meaning.

We need reform toward a more humane family dispute resolution solution

Many of our members are mothers, fathers, and children who have withstood abundant hardship resulting from the current practices of what is generally described as the “Family Law Community.”

These injuries and insults include fraudulent, inefficient, harmful, and even dangerous services; an institutionalized culture of indifference to “clearly-established” liberties; insults to the autonomy and dignity of parents and children; extortion, robbery, abuse, and more, delivered at the hands of eager operators within the divorce industry. ~~ CPRW Vid1 - 2016

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It’s just not possible that intelligent lawyers like judges don’t understand exactly what goes on in their courtrooms, yet they allow it to continue.

This judicial collusion is far more serious crime than even the fraud of divorce attorneys themselves.

We need reform toward a more humane family dispute resolution solution. They’ve treated us as enemies of the state. When we thought we’d be welcomed, or at least heard, we’ve instead become targets of prosecution and terrorist threats. They've assaulted us, harassed our members including threatening “gun cock” and death threat late night phone calls, attacked our businesses, professional licenses, and threatened to jail and extort us with further crime.

It’s outrageous that our own government allows this to happen, and we’re asking the federal court to protect our members as we pursue the civil and criminal charges against the courts. A complete set of filings and exhibits is available from CCFC’s Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/ccfconline ~~ Grandparents and Grandkids World4Justice2016 ~ GR Vid2 -- www.facebook.com/Grandparents4Justice

Jury trials have been unlawfully eliminated as an option in family court by unelected adminstrators, leaving judges to do whatever they want and control the cases completely. The checks and balances of the judicial system have been removed and profit motives win by the gravity of money over decades.

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“Will of the people the only legitimate foundation of any government, protect its free expression, our first object.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."

“There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it’s evil”

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